Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Ecuador and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Hoover to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Bourne,
Easy Going,
Fluxion,
The Kinks,
The Five Americans,
Anakelly,
David Bowie,
Rites of Spring,
E-Dancer,
Joensuu 1685,
Eden Ahbez,
Unrelated Segments,
OOIOO,
The Human League,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Kenny Larkin,
The Birthday Party,
Symarip,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Soul Sonic Force,
D'Angelo,
The Zeros,
Slave,
Nas,
Scientists,
Television Personalities,
Japan,
Henry Cow,
The Victims,
The Beau Brummels,
The Skatalites,
Flamin' Groovies,
Schoolly D,
Sister Nancy,
Tom Boy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
ABC,
Jeff Lynne,
Ornette Coleman,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Minny Pops,
Section 25,
Gang Starr,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jandek,
Country Teasers,
The Cure,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Evens,
The Knickerbockers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Banda Bassotti,
Jawbox,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Guru Guru,
Aloha Tigers,
Tubeway Army,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Morten Harket,
U.S. Maple,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.